I’m prefacing this entire story with two important pieces of information: 1) Pippi Longstocking was my childhood idol. I dressed as her for three Halloweens in a row and made my mom put wire hangers in my braids on pretty much a daily basis. 2) The Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmint Ephraim’s Daughter Longstocking I really looked up to was Inger Nilsson’s version. She played the role in the Swedish TV show turned overdubbed movie series, of which I still own the box set. Read more on The Frisky.

It’s hard to picture certain celebs with former partners, when they just make so much sense with their current love, or even alone! Did you have any idea about Tom Hanks, or Jennifer Garner? Yup, they are on the list of celebs with former first flames that you probably didn’t know about. Read on to see who else made the list. Check out the list on Your Tango!

“Fringe” star Joshua Jackson has landed his next TV project, a Showtime drama pilot called “The Affair.” The pilot, from “In Treatment” writers Sarah Treem and Hagai Levi, focuses on two marriages and the effect an affair has on each of them. Jackson joins Dominic West (“The Wire,” “The Hour”), Ruth Wilson (“Luther”) and Maura Tierney (“ER,” “The Good Wife”) in the cast. Read more on Zap2It.

Following in the footsteps of N’SYNC’s 60-second return to the spotlight, 98 Degrees’ boy band member Jeff Timmons has announced “Men of the Strip” — a male musical revue that he hopes will reignite his career on the stage. More details on The Wrap.

In the wake of Macklemore’s win at the Video Music Awards, openly-gay New York City rapper Le1F took to Twitter to unleash a string of rather hefty accusations at the emcee, implying that Macklemore used his song “Same Love” to try and make money off of the same-sex controversy. While most of the heated Tweets have since been deleted, they pulled no punches on a number of other subjects as well. More on the story at Death and Taxes.

Because literally EVERYONE is talking about Miley Cyrus’ nasty VMA performance, Cyndi Lauper has jumped on the bandwagon too. Australian radio hosts Brig & Lehmo called in and asked Cyndi what she thought about Miley’s performance. Cyndi says even though she was wild and crazy in her heydey she never ho’d it out like Miley did. Find out what she had to say on ICYDK.